How Is George Wilson Selfish

The word selfish is defined as, “devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others” (Selfish). When people act selfishly they care for themselves and what they get out of everything. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Daisy's indecisiveness, selfishness, and longing for the past romance causes Gatsby's death. Daisy's selfishness is a root cause of Gatsby’s death. She is a very young woman that isn't well matured yet, and does not understand the concept of love and has many mixed feelings.

Daisy Buchanan is an important character in the novel, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as she is the goal for which Jay Gatsby strives. Although she adds to the themes, she is described as "an empty shallow fairly tail princess who never grows up". The following essay will discuss this quote by analysing: firstly her relationship with Gatsby; secondly her relationship with her husband, Tom Buchanan; lastly her carelessness and in consideration for others. After five years of being separated. Daisy and Gatsby reunite and Daisy rediscovers her love for him.

Tom fail to maintain his image of a successful man with a perfect family who came from wealth when he has an affair with Myrtle, who is George’s wife as Myrtle’s dream to be as same level as the upper level people is achieved when she with Tom. In order to make her fantasy alive, she having an affair with Tom who is rich and famous. Tom is used by Myrtle as a means of pursuing her dream. Myrtle says, “The only crazy I was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake.

Not only is avarice a major issue, but the likes of pride and envy lurk in the murky waters of the Long Island Sound. The previous offenders, repeat again here. Starting with Gatsby, who embodies the classic rags to riches stories of the time. When his past is brought out from behind a curtain, it is discovered that it may be not so classic after all. James Gatz admires the well-to-do people, like Dan Cody.

In the novel, Great Gatsby, the two main women presented are Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. There are many similarities and differences between Daisy and Myrtle. For instance both of them are unhappy in their lives and they are love in with a different with person, not with their husband. Their marriage is a jail. They are both in love with Tom in a different way, Daisy is the wife and Myrtle is the mistress.

In Chapter two the reader meets Myrtle, Tom's mistress, she explains how she married George Wilson and how it was a mistake because he “borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in” (35). Myrtle is a very classy lady who wants the riches in life and wants somebody who can supply her with these wants and needs. Tom is the guy that can do this for her and more, compared to Wilson he is more put together and wealthier and therefore Myrtle is attracted to him. George seems happy to have Myrtle as a wife and so he appears somewhat as a pushover when Myrtle orders him around he gladly obliges. Tom, however, is glad to have Myrtle as his mistress because she is of the lower-class, he likes to have someone that looks up to him and that can take care of him, not the other way around.

America in the 1920’s was a place for self-absorbed desires and pseudo appearances of wealth and happiness. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the audience looks through the empty lives of three characters from the novel, Jay Gatsby, and the Buchanans, Daisy and Tom. Fitzgerald uses the character's’ trials and tribulations to depict the concept that chasing the hollow American Dream leads only to misery and superfluous materialism. Although each individual had various intentions, in the end, they all displayed immoral actions and toxic behavior in attempt to attain their ideal lives.

The impact of socioeconomic status can be examined through a myriad of lenses. F. Scott Fitzgerald aims to show the relationship between socioeconomic status and power. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Tom’s character shows that socioeconomic status is equivalent to power within the novel. Tom puts great pride and emphasis on his socioeconomic status and wealth.

There can be no wealthy without the poor. Wealth is measured in material goods; he who has more is wealthier man. Often times, this material wealth will come to the expense of others. The material goods used by the wealthy need to come from somewhere. Many times, it is up to the poor to provide for the wealthy.

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F Scotts Fitzgerald love and money motivates every character. They all had made decisions based on love and money, no matter the consequences, no matter if it was good or bad they still made those decisions through the love they had for someone and their desire for money. Tom Buchanan 's love for daisy was pure and true throughout the book the great gatsby he even made some hard decisions all out the love possesed for her. A very critical part of the the novel was when tom 's wife had killed George Wilson 's wife Myrtle Wilson in a automotive accident. When George came to tom about what happened questioning him about who killed his wife, Tom could see that George was furious and would be willing to do anything to the person who killed his beloved wife.

Tadeusz Borowski, a famous polish writer and journalist, once said that “The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money”. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby takes place in the early 1920’s and tells the story of Some of the wealthy people of East and West Egg. Tom and Daisy Buchanan live in East Egg which is predominantly people coming from families with old money. In the Valley of Ashes George Wilson lives with his wife Myrtle above his gas station. Myrtle is Tom’s mistress, but Daisy knows about Tom having an affair.